Step 2: Leave a changeset comment where you e.g. welcome the contributor and (if necessary) give her/him some feedback about the map changes. You could also add some additional information, such as links to wiki pages of tags (map features), good mapping practices, the OSM forum, OSM help or mailing lists. Based on the changeset comment other contributors can see that the original contributor of this changeset already has been provided with some feedback.

Personally, I really like this new feature. It provides an easy way to search for contributors who are asking for feedback about their map edits. Thanks to all iD developer’s for implementing this idea. What do you think? Should I add an extra score to “How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap” where every answer to a requested feedback changeset will be counted?

While I consider the idea a (biggish) mistake, I would have nothing against being wrong on that account. So that could actually being shown, I think a tally of changesets that have the flag set and haven’t received a comment would be a good idea.

We are currently well on the way to 5’000 changesets with the flag set and I doubt if more than 1% has actually been looked at.

So far we have almost 7,000 changesets with ‘review_requested’ = ‘yes’, which have been created by 2,233 unique contributors. 1,350 of that contributors registered within the last three week (after Aug. 14th). However, at least 102 contributors received a requested comment. That means 8%, right?

Simon – the reason why the numbers are off is because it took over a week for us to land this feature in OSMCha – we didn’t do a backfill to process older changesets with the review tag. We may consider performing a backfill but not sure at the moment.

Biggest problem with the system is the fact that users only get notified of changeset comments via email, and not through the OSM website like user messages or an integrated reviewer interface. So some people who have requested a review may not notice they have an a changeset comment if they don’t receive or check their email…

I think it’s a good feature, but we have to see how this works out and if enough “seniors” participate.
A wish for the RSS feed: Could you add the location of the changeset to the feed? E.g. in the same way it’s done for notes “near Weisenau, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany”